Presented by Henry Kiara at the Workshop on Scaling up the Delivery of ITM in Tanzania through Facilitation of the ITM Value Chain, Bagamoyo, 28-29 September 2015

1. Inception Meeting:
Scaling up the delivery of ITM in Tanzania
through facilitation of ITM delivery value chain
Bagamoyo, 29 September 2015
Henry Kiara

2. Aims of the Project and Expected
outputs

3. Rationale
• ECF is a major constraint to livestock productivity
in ECA
• Economic loses in Tanzania est. at
 Smallholder dairy-US$4.4million (McLeod and
Kristianson 1999)
 Pastoral and agropastoral-US$ 129.5million (Minjau
&McLeod 2003)
 Losses from all TBD-US$364 (ECF accounted for 68%)
Kivaria et al.2006)
• Does not include “fear of ECF”

4. Rationale
• Available control options have serious limitations
 tick control –acaricide resistance, management
 Chemotherapy-high cost, early diagnosis
 Zero-grazing-not absolute, not feasible in some areas
• ITM has been shown to reduce mortality to less
than 2% in all production systems (Di Giulio et
al.2009)
• Although up to 1million cattle have been
immunised this is approx.3.5% the cattle at risk
• Hence the need to find new ways to upscale the
distribution

5. Main challenges with the current delivery
• Limited coverage by existing distributors
• Trained vaccinators but lacking equipment-lack of
financing mechanisms
• Limited cold chain infrastructure-LN, refrigeration
(or too long a chain)
• Inadequate business orientation-vaccinators
• Limited awareness or incorrect information about
the vaccine

6. USAID Project
• Partners
• Government of Tanzania
• GALVmed
• Existing ITM distributors
• Other partners-to be identified during project
implementation
• Duration: 2 years July 2015-June 2017
• Grant: USD 0.5million per year

7. Objectives
1. Expand the distribution reach of the vaccine
o Additional distributors
o Train additional vaccinators for existing and new
distributors
o standardised training, certification,oversight
2. Sensitization and awareness creation
o Farmer sensitisation
o Media, radio etc.
o Regulatory authorities

8. Objectives
3. Improving Vaccine delivery
o Involve other animal health
actors in ITM-CBOs,
DBHs,CBOs,Coops, POs, DMHs
o Input dealership-Agrovet shops
o Bundling services: AI networks to
combine with ITM

9. Expected outputs
• New jobs created
• Number of improved agricultural policies developed
• Number of livestock keepers using ITM
• Number of individuals who have been trained in ITM
• Number of groups-producers organizations, women's groups,
trade and business associations, and community based
organizations who have been supported
• Number PPP created through the project
• Number of households benefiting directly
• Number of cattle vaccinated